You Were Warned

Chapter 180 Cancer

Cancer I listened to what Sagittarius had to convey to me. It was agreed with the remaining neruppu paravai families, that we would keep our identity secret from everyone until we knew we would not be hunted down. In the magickal world, we are considered extinct and we agreed this thought should remain. If found out we would be hunted down for our power and abilities. Aquarius informed us that her plan was going to move forward. We had been advised to know where the phoenixes are all the time. She was sure Iravu was not joking around when she spoke to her. One paravai would give Mannel and Parppavai a great deal of power. But a phoenix would give her the power of death. For now, we made sure that the word sorceress or sorcerer was spoken of. While I was working on our dinner I thought about the upcoming Zodiac meeting. The council was starting to ask more questions. The answers I was giving were not enough for them. Aqua insisted until she could meet them all at the same time. It was unwise to reveal any more information. Pisces and Scorpio agreed with Aquarius, there was a traitor at the table. Too many situations have pointed toward it! Against my wishes, Mirna had returned to her home. She said that she needed to run her business. It was her only extra source of income that could be used to fund and raise money for things that were needed. Like clothing for the orphans, school books and a lot more. I received a message from Aqua, “go over the missing files and tell me if you see a pattern? I think I might have found Mannel’s hiding spot. But I want to know what you think without me showing you!” I glared at my phone with confusion, "What does she mean by that?" I said out loud. "What are you talking about?" Sagittarius asked from the door entrance. "The message that Aquarius sent me!" I handed my phone to him. Reading the information, he scratched the side of his head, "Has she been sending you information?" I went over to my safe, and pulled out all the pages I had been collecting about attempted abductions, murders and sightings of our etiri. “This was just the information for the month.” Going page by page, Sagittarius's facial expression changed from upset to angry to an expression I could not read. "Who else knows about this?" He had one brow raised at me. "Only the Constellation, I cross-referenced her work with police reports. Everything added up with half of the reports." I went back to the stove to check on the food, “the elementals said they could not find them either.” His tone calmed down, not by much, "Is Aqua hunting? If so I am not telling Jennifer!" "When I questioned Mirna, she responded that she was collecting information to find the headquarters of our etirikal." Father gave me a cup of tea. "So yes she is hunting! In a way that is not physical." Shouting, "Is she crazy?" I could not help it. I roared with laughter, "Every female is crazy, it just matters what level she is at!" My phone made the sound to notify me that a message had been recieved. Glancing at my phone I read the message that was sent, "I think I have found something of interest. I will tell you at the next Blood Moon meeting, see you in three days!" I glanced at Sagittarius, telling him what she had said, "It looks like Aquarius will be joining this next meeting!" Sagittarius clapped his hands together, "Excellent we have our newest member now! Should we inform the others?" “I am sure they are going to want to put this to a vote!” “Things will work in our favour!” "I need to let her know we start the meeting at nine at night ... our time!" Doing so, I waited to see if she would reply. Turning off my phone I placed the pages back in the safe again for safekeeping. We were sitting down eating dinner when my phone started to go off again. My phone was letting me know I had received a message. The dinner rule was no phone until the meal was finished. The phone kept on going off making it hard for me to follow my own rule that I had made once Pisces got into the stage of cell phones and other electronics. I had finished eating, washing my plate and putting it away. The message was from Aquarius, "I do not know if I can be there by nine ..." I said the first part of the message out loud. "I do not know if the plane will land there in time!" I finished off. Each of us wrinkled our facial muscles! "What is she talking about?" Sagittarius asked out loud. I messaged Aqua back, "WHAT? I pressed send. "I am in Florida … now!" I received a reply from Aquarius. A few seconds pass, "Never mind ... Do you have extra room for me to stay at your place for a night or three?" I read the message out loud. "What did she say dad?" "Aqua wants to know if we have the room for her to stay with us for a few nights!" My phone went off again. Reading the message out loud, "I will be there in two days … bought the ticket, I just need to figure out where to stay for the night." "I figured out what level of crazy she is?" Sagittarius announced to us, "She is bat shit crazy! Why would she fly around when she can portal wherever she wants?" I shook my head, "Everything about the girl does not make sense. I have learned to go with the flow of her mind process." I started to chuckle, "She is going to make the best Aquarius we have ever had!" “Aqua can take my bed, I will sleep on the couch!” Pisces told me. Typing that information I pressed send. I placed my phone down, just to receive another notification. "Excellent, I will explain things when I get there.” I said Aquarius' message out loud. I sent a message back letting her know to send me the time and place where the plane would be landing. Pisces or I would pick her up from the airport. Sagittarius made sure his mess was cleaned up, "I better be going, if I do not get back home when I say I will be ... my wife gets upset and will cry for hours." "See you later Sagittarius!" I yelled as he was getting ready to leave. "Old man, can you send me those reports tonight? I want to add those to my file that I have at home. I think Aqua is trying to kill herself, but she has a lot of useful information." "On it!" I said as I opened my laptop and started to get to work. Pisces waited until Sagittarius left the location. “What do you think Aqua is doing in Florida?” Pisces asked. "Do you think she is being hunted?" I glanced at my computer starting to open files, getting them ready to send them off. "She did not say anything, but I got the feeling that she was being cryptic. She did not want me to send her the address and she used our code names. I also found it weird that she asked me if we had anyone over! Told her that Sagittarius was here but no one else." My son pulled up a chair and sat with me, "That is odd!" "It gets weirder if that is even possible!" I stated, "Then Aqua asked me if Leo has been around lately asking questions about a group practising combat manoeuvres?" I started to chuckle, "I told her no, Leo has not been around since the last meeting."My son placed his cup down and gave me the hundred mile stare, "Actually dad she was here! She was here this morning!" He finally spoke. "You were busy and had to leave to serve a customer. When I came out of the washroom ... Leo was in my workshop looking at my work. Beside dad, why would Leo be asking questions like that when Leo is part of the group that is training to fight with Aries?" Pisces got up from his spot! He placed a finger to his mouth, indicating that I was not to speak! I did not need my son to tell me what he was doing, but we were searching for a device that would listen to our conversations. It took us nearly forty minutes to find it, but there was a bug attached to the bottom of Pisces work chair. "This is not good!" I mouthed to my son. Inspecting the device my father let out a breath of relief. "It was not activated!" He smiled. I took the device over to my son's tools. I placed it on the table and took the hammer down on it, crushing it with one strike. "I think we have found our snitch!" Pisces phone dinged, reading the message out loud, ”shapeshifter!” He thought for a second, “Dad, I think we are dealing with a shapeshifter! Who is the shapeshifter in our group?” I placed the pieces into the garbage, “There are no shapeshifters in the Zodiac council.” The wheels in my mind were turning, ”We have an imposter!” “MIERDA!” Pisces shouted!

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